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Digital Resources for Early American Studies

General References

American Heritage Vegetables

Colonial Music Institute

Colonial Williamsburg

Cultural Readings, University of Pennsylvania

Early Americas Digital Archive, University of Maryland at College Park

Electronic Texts in American Studies, University of Nebraska Lincoln Libraries

Food in the Age of Experiment, Special Issue on Food, edited by David Shields for Common-place

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

History on Trial, Lehigh University

Musical Passage: Voyage to 1688 Jamaica

National Archives

National Humanities Center

National Women’s History Museum

Teaching American History

The Architect of the Capitol

The Digital Public Library of America

The Hanover Historical Texts Collection, Hanover College, History Department

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project [IHSP] ; IHSP, Colonial North America, Fordham University

Transcribing Early American Manuscript Sermons

Libraries
American Antiquarian Society

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

The Huntington Library

The John Carter Brown Library

The Library Company of Philadelphia

Library of Congress

Massachusetts Historical Society

The New York Public Library

The Newberry Library

Please note: New Sources are Forthcoming, thank you!

Se-quo-yah

R. T. Se-quo-yah. 1838. Published in Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 3 vols., Philadelphia, 1837-1844. Hand-colored lithograph. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Foster, The Boarding School

[Foster, Mrs. Hannah (Webster)]. The Boarding School: Or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils ... Boston: G. P. Peaslee, 1829. HathiTrust . To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

The history of the New-York African free-schools

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. “The history of the New-York African free-schools, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time…” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1830. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship from Writing Schools in Boston, 1748-1782. Cooper, John. Earthly treasure : autograph manuscript, 1771. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Colonial North America at Harvard Library. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.